The nursing profession has a growing role in the health policy arena. Some hold elective office.
Nurses with policy expertise are assuming leadership roles in advocacy, research, analysis, and policy development, implementation and evaluation. They work in health services research firms, legislative and regulatory offices, health maintenance organizations, advocacy organizations, or health care provider associations. The Health Policy specialty focuses on preparing students to provide policy
05/22/2020
Dr. Kate Horton's Research on NYC jails and COVID cited by major news outlets | Nursing Health Policy May 20, 2020 Print PDF Nursing Health Policy alum Kate Horton has had her work with the NYC Jail system cited by both CNN and the New York Times this week. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, her staff at the NYC Board of Correction has been working dilgently to oversee how it’s being managed in the city...
05/22/2020
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Dr. Charlene Harrington provides insight on PBS NewsHour | Nursing Health Policy May 19, 2020 Print PDF Tuesday May 19 on the NewsHour, the Senate is divided over when to provide additional coronavirus aid -- and to whom. Plus: Sens. Pat Toomey and Sherrod Brown on federal pandemic relief, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on COVID-19 trends in his state, coronavirus infections surge...
05/22/2020
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MS Student Jason Bloomer in the News | Nursing Health Policy May 20, 2020 Print PDF Jason Bloomer, interviewed in this segment was the ICU nurse for a patient just released from UCSF after 34 days on a ventilator. Bloomer is currently a 1st year MS student in the Nursing Health Policy program. Bloomer was also instrumental in setting up Zoom connections betwe...
10/17/2019
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Rachel Odes Interviwed by KQED | Nursing Health Policy Oct 17, 2019 Print PDF Rachel Odes, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Nursing studying workplace violence in healthcare settings was interviewed by KQED as a psychiatric nurse and doctoral student researching this topic to provide insight into how these types of serious incidents can oc...
08/26/2019
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MS Health Policy Students A Day at the Capitol | Nursing Health Policy Aug 26, 2019 Print PDF Master's candidates Rachel Mathison, Lisa Isola Chikovani, and Ashley Moore, students of the MS Health Policy program at UCSF, attended the American Nurses Association - California (ANA\C) RN Day 2019 - A Day at the Capitol. Opening speakers at the event, Roxanne Gould, ANA\C....
07/18/2019
PhD and MS Health Policy Grads, 2019
05/30/2019
Rachel Mathison, one of four UCSF students, attends The Nursing Organizations Alliance Nurse in Washington Internship (NIWI) program | Nursing Health Policy May 30, 2019 Print PDF The Nurse in Washington Internship Program The Nursing Organizations Alliance (NOA)’s Nurse in Washington Internship (NIWI) program orients registered nurses to the federal legislative process and prepares nurses to lobby and advocate for nursing and health care issues in Co...
05/14/2019
Ulrike Muench awarded Excellence in Research Mentoring Teaching Award. | Nursing Health Policy Apr 30, 2019 Print PDF Dean Gilliss and the UCSF School of Nursing Faculty Council will recognize Dr. Ulrike Muench at the spring Full Faculty meeting as the recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Research Mentoring Teaching Award. Her nominator spoke about her important contributions in a compelling f...
03/07/2019
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Welcome to New Faculty: Stella Aguinaga Bialous | Nursing Health Policy Mar 7, 2019 Print PDF SBS is thrilled to announce that Stella Aguinaga Bialous will be joining our ladder-rank faculty and teaching in health policy. Stella is a native of Brazil and has been working internationally on cancer and to***co control policy for several years. She has been involved with t...
02/21/2019
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-hospice-complaint-20190216-story.html
When hospice care goes wrong, where can you turn? When our mother died last month, after a bungled transfer from hospital to residential hospice care that caused her unnecessary pain and distress, my siblings and I briefly considered suing.
11/20/2018
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Alumni News: Grundy Publishes Book | Nursing Health Policy Nov 19, 2018 Print PDF A note from Quinn: I wanted to let you know that my bookInfiltrating Healthcare: How Marketers Work Underground to Influence Nurses is now available! This book began life as my dissertation and many of you have contributed to this process in various ways across my time in San....
10/11/2018
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Ulrike Muench presenting at Health Affairs event | Nursing Health Policy Oct 11, 2018 Print PDF Ulli Muench, RN PhD presented the results of the recently published study“California Nurse Practitioners Are Positioned to Fill the Primary Care Gap, but They Face Barriers,” co-authored with Joanne Spetz, PhD, professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and assoc...